#tao

The Tao that can be spoken is not the eternal Tao. The name that can be named is not the eternal name.

Water gathers in the low places that people disdain. Therefore it is like the Tao.

When you are at one with the Tao, you will live long and your life will be exempt from decay.

When the Master governs, the people are hardly aware that he exists. When his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: 'We did it ourselves.'

Before the universe was created, there was something formless and perfect. It was pure, deep, solitary, and unchanging.

The Tao is like a great river that flows everywhere. It is the Mother of the world.

Those who know do not speak; those who speak do not know. Close your mouth, blunt your sharpness, untie your knots, soften your glare.

The great Tao flows everywhere, both to the left and to the right. All things depend on it for life, yet it doesn't hold on to them.

The hard and strong will fall. The soft and weak will overcome.

Those who follow the Tao are of one with the Tao. Those who follow virtue are of one with virtue.